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A Perfect Explanation

A Perfect Explanation

Anstruther, Eleanor

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.99

ISBN10: 0358415160
ISBN13: 9780358415169
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Feb 2 2021
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.57
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Finalist for the Desmond Elliott Prize

A superb debut* novel--based on the story of the author's grandmother--following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*The Guardian)

Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a duke, grew up surrounded by servants, wanting for nothing except love. But when her brother died in the First World War, a new heir was needed, and it was up to Enid to provide it.

A troubled marriage and three children soon followed. Broken by postpartum depression, overwhelmed by motherhood and a loveless marriage, Enid made the shocking decision to abandon her family, thereby starting a chain of events--a kidnap, a court case, and selling her son to her sister for 500--that reverberated through the generations.

Interweaving one significant day in 1964, when it seems the family will reunite for one last time, with a decade during the interwar period, A Perfect Explanation explores the perils of aristocratic privilege, where inheritance is everything and happiness is hard won.

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